Depends on what kind of love.With high divorce rates, children getting abused by parents etc. I do concur, although I have not experienced much "unconditional love", I have loved some people, only to be let down, so I guess from my experience, yes most of the time love is fucked. On the other hand there are those who have found happiness through life.... marrying the right partner, raised kids who they loved and whom loved them back....not without the occasional arguments of course....but through traits like acceptance and fidelity, because of "love".

I want to cry because I have never experienced it. Not truly anyway... but I will second that, it makes you act like a total fool.
Chemical imbalance in the brain - oh definitely. One of the few times it's fun to be crazy!

I wish I knew enough to reply, but unfortunately all I have is blind infatuation for people that do not want me.

The sad thing is because I am so a lone and do not get attention or attraction, my mind creates an attraction for the girls I do know that are "possibles" as in I am not so close as a friend to rule it out, but it all just messes with your head, if you didnt fall romantically when you first met you have very little chance at all.

Being in love is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me, even though I eventually ended up being hurt I'm still very happy I got to experience it. I doubt I'll ever feel like that again but it was amazing while it lasted

Love is giving someone the power to break you, to rip you open, but trusting them not to. It's putting them not just before yourselves, but before everything.. when they're involved, they ARE everything.. When you find yourself crying yourself to sleep, it's not because you're unhappy, down or depressed.. It's because you're so happy that you have this person, that they really do love you, this person that you could never ever deserve, this one person who surpasses perfeection beyond so many levels, they can't be real. They just.. can't.. yet, they are and they're yours. You know in your heart, in the whole of your soul that you'll always have them, they'll always be there. This person, you find yourself missing, when they're just across the room. You can look at them, and have the whole world disappear, but then you realise that it didn't.. they are your world, they're your everything. Nobody can hurt you, it's an impossibilty if there ever was one. You're not strong.. to be strong means that you can still be defeated by something stronger.. you just are, you're a single being. Nothing can break you, not because you're unbreakeable, well actually, no.. You kinda are. Love isn't depending on another person, it's intwining your heart and soul with them. They're all you can think about because it's all there is to think about in a sense. It's all you want to think about.
I can go on and on, but you get the picture I'm sure?

Love isn't messed up, it's the single most beautiful thing there will ever be.. what is messed up? Some minds will never be open enough to accept this existance.. therefore they will never understand.

You can attack me, say what you want. You're all welcome to. None of it will matter to me though.

I never thought I'd do the Love thing as I've never been able to trust anyone enough to let them in. Of course I still dreamed about it though and had my idea of Mr Right.

I never found Mr Right but I did find Mr (very very) Safe. We have been really happy together til I got really ill (physically and mentally) after the birth of our daughter. Now through therapy I've been looking at my life and realised how much the traumatic cr*p that happened in my past has affected me.

The BAD crap that happened to me has effected so much stuff in my life and I have done many other BAD things as a result. But what about the GOOD stuff, like my husband (Mr Safe) and my daughter? Can they still be GOOD even if they came from something BAD?